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About Us
Meet our Founder...
Courtney Pepper, Founding President
Courtney Pepper was previously the Director for the Resource Center for Nonprofit Management, a program of the Volunteer Center of Riverside County. She and her staff managed the coordination of support services, internal staffing, consulting and resources to help nonprofit agencies increase their sustainability efforts. Courtney brings a wealth of private sector expertise and nonprofit experience to assist local agencies in furthering their mission.
Courtney Pepper has over fifteen years of experience in the nonprofit sector. She began her nonprofit career serving at the oldest homeless shelter in New York City. She brought that invaluable experience to California where she helped to start The Resource Center for Nonprofit Management as Executive Assistant. Courtney also has several years of experience working with a successful financial services firm where she lead a team of people to teach individuals, families and business owners how to become financially independent. In an independent consultant position, Courtney has helped many people save and invest for their financial future and is currently teaching nonprofit organizations how to sustain themselves to be a driving force for the community in the future.
Amy Lynn Frost, MBA and MA Psychology
National Training Director
Author, When Work Isn’t Working and Drawing Boundaries with Grace
CD: Thriving at Work -- Visualizations for People in the Real World
Ms. Frost is an accomplished educator, trainer, speaker and coach for personal leadership and life coaching programs. Her professional experience has provided her the opportunity to work with thousands of managers and employees dealing with a multitude of workplace related human resource issues (i.e. transitions from promotions, job reassignments, lay offs, dealing with difficult co-workers and employees, and day-do-day changes that impact company morale and productivity).
Ms. Frost served on the faculty at the University of Phoenix where she was distinguished as an outstanding faculty member and a faculty mentor. She also served several years as a Career Mentor and Life Skills presenter for Career Institute and has created and facilitates a Youth Mentor Program to support youth programs nationally. She was President and Chairman of the Board for the Success Institute, a nonprofit which brings life and business skills to youth nationally. For many years she has worked with nonprofits helping them run more effectively, abundantly and joyfully. She is Past President and Program Director for the Inland Empire American Society for Training and Development (ASTD).
Ms. Frost spent 20 years with the Federal Government as a contract negotiator and training facilitator of Total Quality Management programs. She earned a professional designation in Contract Management from the Air Force Institute of Technology and National Contract Management Association. She was part of a select team that helped shut down Norton Air Force Base and completed the prestigious five-year upper level management intern program of Copper Cap.
She was given the Volunteer of the Year Award for her work at the Resource Center of Nonprofit Management, named as one of the Inland Empire Leaders of Distinction by the Business Press, and named as one of the “Top 50 Women Who Make a Difference” in Inland Empire Business Journal, June 2001 Special Edition. Ms. Frost was Co-Director of Las Vegas Chapter of the National Association for Female Executives for two years. Amy is frequently interviewed on Radio and Television and is a published writer and columnist for various publications.
She presented "Moving from Burnout to Inspiration" at the National Hospice Conference as well at the National Conference of the National Association for Female Executives (NAFE) and “Embracing Change” with Felice Willat, Creator of Day Runner, at the International Wellness Conference. She created and chaired the NAFE national award-winning 2000 De-Stress Conference. She co-authored articles in Nursing Magazine on "Coping with Grief and Loss" and "How to Build Your Hope Skills" and wrote a bi-monthly column for Parachute on Life Transitions and a quarterly column called "Dear Amy" for For You Magazine. From 1997 to 2003 she wrote a monthly column “Thriving at Work” for The Messenger.
She was the Training Manager, Producer of call-in radio show “Job Talk” featuring Dick Bolles, and Director of Parachute Associates, Coaching Membership Program, for Parachute Incorporated, founded at the suggestion of Richard Bolles, author of What Color is your Parachute. The company partners with corporations to provide workshops that help exiting employees "take action" -- to manage change, plan their future, find a job, or start a business. The workshops integrate the job-loss recovery program created by Dr. Lynn Joseph, author of The Job-Loss Recovery Guide. The program has been scientifically proven to cut job search time in half.
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